Telegram-herald., 1887-08-18

| passed.
Nor is this all Standing in semieircles, at
| equal distances from each other on the north
and south Of the sacred place, are ten golden
angels, or female winged forms, exquisitsly
shaped and draped. These figures, which are
slightly larger than life size, stand with bent
heads in an attitude of alteration, their faces
| shadowed by their wings, and are most i'm
| posing and of exceeding beauty.
There is bat one thing further that calls for
description in this altar, which is, that to the
east the flooring in front of it is not of pure
white marble. as elsewhere throughout the
| building, but of solid brass; and this is also
the case in front of the other two altars
| At the temple gates our party was received
/ by guard OF soldiers, who appearetfsto be
under the orders Of priest; and by them we
were conducted into one of the ray or "petal"
courts, as the priests call them, and there left
for at least half an hour. Here we conferred
together, and realizing that we stood in great
danger of our lives, determined if any attempt
should be made upon US, TO sell them as dearly
! as we could-UmslopOgaa announcing bis
/ fixed intention of committing sacrilege on
! the person of Agon, the high priest, by split
/ ting his venerable head with Inkosi-kaas
From where we stood we could perceive that
an immense multitude were pouring into the
I temple, evidently in expectation of some un-
usual event. and | could not help fearing that
we had % do with 1t. And hers | may ex-
( plain that every day, when the sunlight falls
upon the central altar, and the trumpets
SQUAD. G burnt sacrifice is offered 10 the sun,
| consisting generally Of the carcass Of sheep
or an OK, or sometimes of fruit or corn. This
event comes OF about midday; not always
exactly az that hour, but as Zu-Nendis is sit
uated not far from the line, although-being
+ 50 high above the sea it is very temperate
midday ard the falling of the sunlight on the
altar were generally simultaneous. Today
the sacrifice was to take place at about eight
minutes past twelve.
Just at II o'clock a priest appeared, and
made = sign, and the officer Of the guard sig
niiied to Us that we were expected 10 ad-
vance, which we did with the be- race that
We could muster, all except Alphoase, whose
/ irrepressible teeth instantly began - chatter
In afcv seconds we were out Of the court and
looking az a vast see of human faces stretch
Ing away to the farthest limits Of the great
circle. ail strsining 70 catch a glimpse Of the
mysterious strangers who had committed
sacrilege. the first strangers. mind you, who,
70 the knowledge Of the multitude. bad ever
SCI foot ia Zu-Nandis since such time tkat the
memory ef man runnstE not 20 TIE contrary.
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blush q excitement grow On the thousands
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